Salt Lake Telegram | 1911-06-01 | Page 9 | United States Judge Suspend Sentence

UNITED STATES JUDGE SUSPENDS SENTENCE HTT1.ENA. Mont.. -Tune 1. To permit tha defendant to return home to care for hta sick babv. Judge Raeeh yeater-day yeater-day In the federal court e impended for three days tha Jail sentence imposed upon Michael Stevens, a Flathead fullbreed. Haltingly, through an Interpreter, Stev-ena Stev-ena unfolded hta story and It moved tha court to grant a suspension. The Indian had peadej guilty to a "whisky" charge, and had been sentenced sen-tenced tn serve sixty days In Jail and nay a fine of llfM. Thla Is saM to ba the first csae where a sentence was ever suspended In the federal court of tha district dis-trict of Montana.